[arnabbiswas]

My mini 12 was purchased with Ubuntu but I installed Win XP Professional since I am not an ubuntu fan. I installed SP3 and all the necessary drivers from the Dell website ( I still show one Unknown Device under device manager but all the hardware seems to work fine).

My problem is that intermittently whenever I browse on IE or Firefox, the laptop just freezes on me. I cannot move the mouse and ctrl-alt-del, alt-f4 - none of them work. My laptop is set to go into hibernate on shutting the lid, but when this freeze happens even the hibernate does not work.

This may be a bad driver issue, but I have no clue how to troubleshoot. Any help sincerely appreciated!

[bhikku]

I'm having the same experience with my new mini 12. It'll lock up whether or not it's online. No errors in the event logs.

Did you find a solution to your issue?

[bhikku]

Hm. It was working fine for a couple of hours after I had run many Windows updates.

Now, however, it's freezing about 2 minutes after it's turned on, regardless of whether I do anything. I just now tried to right-click and view the display properties and it's frozen again.

[robvalverde]

Originally Posted by arnabbiswas

I still show one Unknown Device under device manager but all the hardware seems to work fine

It's the Smart Battery device, here is the DRIVER.

[soul]

Originally Posted by robvalverde

It's the Smart Battery device, here is the DRIVER.

what about my co processor =(

[butpatbut]

I have the same problem...freezes in xp anyone can help?

[bhikku]

I disabled SpeedStep in the BIOS and the problems went away.